Clay You could try something like the attached circuit schematic.Austron used buffer amplifiers like this albeit without the complementary symmetry output stage.
There are no transformers and the dc gain is low. Simulated reverse isolation at 10MHz is around 120dB. Simulated crosstalk between the 2 outputs is around -100dB at 10MHz.The transistor models used usually predict reverse isolation reasonably accurately at 10MHz.
The phase noise floor should be around -170dBc/Hz or less at 100kHz offset.
V1 is the input signal.The 50 ohm sources V6, V7 shown at the outputs are used for simulation purposes (reverse isolation and crosstalk).
Off course, more elaborate power supply decoupling will be necessary to avoid degrading reverse isolation and crosstalk.
If you are really desperate to reduce the dc current the output transistors could be operated in class B.
However the distortion will increase a little. Bruce life speed wrote:
Avoiding transformers and inductors will make it virtually impossible to achieve very low phase noise as the dc gain from say the base of any transistor in the chain to the output will degrade the flicker phase noise. Using transformers or using an inductor to shunt any collector resistors reduces the flicker phase modulation to low levels. JPL in the past has built capacitively coupled complementary symmetry isolation amplifiers that avoid transformers but suffer from dc loop gains of around 3 or so. Using complementary symmetry can be a good way of keeping the dc current down. How much reverse isolation do you need? How low does the phase noise floor need to be? What about flicker phase noise, how low does that need to be? Bruce Right, what do I really need? I only have a really good 10 MHz OCXO crystal oscillator to distribute, so about -120 dBc at 10 Hz, -140 dBc/Hz at 100 Hz, - 150 dBc/Hz at 1KHz, and -155 dBc/Hz noise floor. No maser or cesium clock, living in the world of practical realities here. Of course I would like to be 3 - 6 dB better than the OCXO numbers. Reverse isolation is my primary interest in the distribution amplifier approach, although the OCXO is good enough that a sloppy approach could contaminate the phase noise also. I would like to accomplish at least 100 dB reverse isolation at frequencies below 20 MHz, but more is better in this case. The 10 MHz is running all over a noisy aircraft, to potentially noisy receivers. In reading up on the subject, I have come to understand that DC gain is the bane of close-in phase noise. Given that flicker noise is such a headache for we frequency synthesizer designers, I guess this should come as no surprise. Clay (AKA Lifespeed) _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
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